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‘Me talk funny’: A stroke patient's personal account

A personal account from a multilingual linguist in recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2011

Jürg R. Schwyter
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If you met me and listened to me speaking English, you might ask yourself why I talk so funny; why I can't find the right words; and why I make so many grammatical errors. I am, after all, the Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and I have degrees in English language and linguistics from Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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English Today , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 49 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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